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3 hrs ago | MSNBC

I Hate fire ants. I have been attacked twice.

Researchers believe new findings about the curious locomotion of fire ants could give engineers lessons for building automated search-and-rescue robots designed to hunt for human victims trapped underground.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Entomology, Science, Georgia Tech, US News

3 hrs ago | Common Dreams

In Tornado's Wake, Oklahoma's GOP Senators Focus of Disaster Relief Politics

Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe, both Republicans, have consistently voted against funding disaster aid for other parts of the country.

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Related Topix: Tom Coburn, US Politics, Senator Jim Inhofe, US News, US Senate, Republican, Oklahoma Government, Oklahoma, Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Sandy, FEMA

3 hrs ago | Common Dreams

Body of Footless Torture Victim Unearthed Near US Special Forces Base in Afghanistan

Laborers digging a water ditch just 200 yards from a former US Special Forces outpost in Afghanistan have discovered the body of a missing Afghan man, Sayid Mohammad, who was last seen being taken to the base after being taken into custody by men associated with the US military.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, US Military, US Army, US News

4 hrs ago | The Nation

Budget Cuts Endanger Agency That Saved Countless Lives in Oklahoma

Many heroes asserted themselves in Oklahoma yesterday, from the first responders digging through the rubble for survivors, to the teachers who shielded children from the massive tornado that touched down as the school day was ending.

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Related Topix: The National, Entertainment, Television, Weather, US News

9 hrs ago | Democratic Underground Latest Breakin...

Angry mob pelts man thought to be sex attacker

Source: Associated Press May 20, 1:25 PM EDT Angry mob pelts man thought to be sex attacker By STEVEN K. PAULSON Associated Press DENVER -- Residents angry that police had not warned them about sex assaults of children took matters into their own hands, chasing down a man they thought was the attacker, pelting him with rocks and leaving him with a ... (more)

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Related Topix: US News

13 hrs ago | Democratic Underground Latest Breakin...

Another tornado touches down near Okla. City; at least 2 killed, 21 injured

Source: CBS News Another tornado touched down near Oklahoma City and is moving northeast, the National Weather Service confirmed, bringing more dangerous weather that has already claimed the lives of two people since Sunday.

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Related Topix: Weather, Oklahoma, US News

13 hrs ago | Common Dreams

Devastating Tornado Cuts Path of Death in Oklahoma

A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., and passed along to rescuers Monday, May 20, 2013.

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Related Topix: Oklahoma, Moore, OK, Oklahoma City, OK, US News

14 hrs ago | National Public Radio

Fox News Reporter James Rosen Caught Up In Federal Probe

There is word of another controversial leak investigation by the Department of Justice.

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Related Topix: US News

14 hrs ago | Democratic Underground Latest Breakin...

At least 91 killed in Moore tornado, hundreds injured

Source: From KFOR TV, Oklahoma City MOORE, Okla. - Officials have confirmed at least 91 people have been killed in the Moore tornado Monday.

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Related Topix: Moore, OK, US News

18 hrs ago | Common Dreams

DOJ's Pursuit of Fox News Journalist Deepens Outrage over...

New revelations about the manner in which President Obama's Department of Justice has pursued journalists thought to have garnered government secrets is being called not just a "war on whistleblowers," but an assault on "investigative journalism itself." President Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder.

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Related Topix: Journalism, US News, Law, Employment / Labor Law, Washington Post, Publishing, Criminal Defense Law

Mon May 20, 2013

Media Matters for America

Santilli Doubles Down On Clinton Attack: "I Want To Shoot Her In The...

Extremist radio host Pete Santilli is defending and reiterating his inflammatory attacks on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, stating on his program that he wants "to shoot her in the vagina and let her suffer right before my eyes." In a May 17 rant captured by Right Wing Watch, Santilli called for the Bush family and President Obama to be ... (more)

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, US News

Media Matters for America

"Irrelevant": Fox Distorts Obama Adviser's Remarks In Continued Scandal Mongering Campaign

Fox News distorted remarks from White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer to falsely claim the Obama administration felt recent controversies involving the IRS and the attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, were "irrelevant." Pfeiffer's full comments made clear, however, that the administration felt the IRS targeting particular ... (more)

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, US News

OpEdNews

The White Paper on Drones: The Tail Wagging the Dog

If there are possible legal grounds for drone assassinations based on the White Paper, then these are post hoc ergo propter hoc confirmations of a fait accompli .

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Related Topix: Terrorism, US News

Crooks and Liars

Rand Paul Continues Attacks on Clinton Over Benghazi

Sen. Rand Paul continued with his charges from earlier this week that former Sec.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Rand Paul, Hillary Clinton

Common Dreams

Fears of Civil War Grip Iraq as Bombings and Death Skyrocket

Providing further evidence that Iraq is already experiencing the violence of a civil war, multiple bombings in two major cities on Monday killed dozens of people and injured many more.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East, US News

OpEdNews

Racism and the American Right

Racism has been a consistent thread weaving through the American Right from the early days when Anti-Federalists battled against the U.S. Constitution to the present when hysterical Tea Partiers denounce the first African-American president.

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Related Topix: African-American, Virginia, Virginia Government, US News

Sun May 19, 2013

Guardian Unlimited

Obama: partisan battles in Washington holding back US economy

President Barack Obama told students at Morehouse College: 'My whole life, I've tried to be what my father wasn't for my mother and me.' Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA President Barack Obama complained on Sunday that partisan battles in Washington are holding back stronger US economic growth as he tried to recover from one of the most difficult ... (more)

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Related Topix: Atlanta, GA, Morehouse College, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Common Dreams

A Nuclear Iran Would Unlikely Tilt Regional Power Balance

A nuclear-armed Iran would not pose a fundamental threat to the United States and its regional allies like Israel and the Gulf Arab monarchies, according to a new report released here Friday by the Rand Corporation.

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Related Topix: US News

Common Dreams

Likely US Drone Adds to Tally of Extrajudicial Killings in Yemen

A drone flying over southern Yemen bombed a passenger van on Saturday, killing at least four people and wounding several others, a local official said .

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Related Topix: Yemen, Middle East, World News, US News

Common Dreams

Gunmen Kill Khan's Senior Official Ahead of Pakistan Recount

A senior member of Imran Khan's Movement for Justice party was shot dead on Saturday outside the gates of her home in Karachi, Pakistan, hours before several re-elections were scheduled to take place in the country on Sunday.

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Related Topix: Sports, Cricket, Pakistan, US News